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I didn’t think old people could be funny, you were very very funny.

Ten Year Old Boy

Martin Figura’s poems are sharp and funny. One of the best performing poets on the circuit.

Luke Wright

…. Tym’s response was extraordinary, for a quiet, non-poetic man like him. ‘Brilliant! he exclaimed. ‘Absolutely bloody brilliant!’ And he kept on saying it all the way home.

Jennifer Currie

…. sometimes very funny and always engaging. Figura is remarkably frank in what he tells his audience; but he includes us rather than making us feel we are intruding.

London Grip - Michael Bartholomew-Biggs

…. brave, confident and articulate performance from a man who gives us the confidence to find within each of us the strength to be a good father or mother or poet, or even all combined in one.

Norwich Spy - Julian Swainson

“He must be a writer – he has ‘the look’ about him”. Punter, Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh Book Festival

Martin Figura’s show was one of the highlights of our festival this year. It had a very powerful effect on the audience; months later people still tell me how it has stayed with them.

Eleanor Livingstone, Director StAnza International Poetry Festival

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New policy statement from Boris Johnson

New policy statement from Boris Johnson

This advanced hiding now. Helen Ivory simply went

This advanced hiding now. Helen Ivory simply went down the steps and kept going.

It takes a bit of effort to come to Thetford Fores

It takes a bit of effort to come to Thetford Forest to do your littering. 😥😥😥

You need to be up early to catch a glimpse of Hele

You need to be up early to catch a glimpse of Helen Ivory emerging for her morning hunt

9am on Saturday and already well ahead of schedule

9am on Saturday and already well ahead of schedule: tomorrow's curry burnt - tick. I have to say it doesn't look much like picture in the cook book, but they're all faked up anyway.

15th anniversary meal in our wedding clothes, if a

15th anniversary meal in our wedding clothes, if anything a little loose. Of course we hammered the pick'n'mix in that first giddy year.

Heard the door go and found a delivery in the hall

Heard the door go and found a delivery in the hall after Helen Ivory headed out to the Post Office - she said.

Hide and seek in the woods with Helen Ivory is a n

Hide and seek in the woods with Helen Ivory is a nightmare, after an hour I'm back where I started with no luck

I've not seen hide or hair of her this morning

I've not seen hide or hair of her this morning

The walk back from the pub

The walk back from the pub

I was literally talking to her a couple of seconds

I was literally talking to her a couple of seconds ago - how does she do it

Well, she's vanished again

Well, she's vanished again

An afternoon seal watching. No idea where Helen i

An afternoon seal watching. No idea where Helen is

Where the hell has she gone now

Where the hell has she gone now

It came from the deep

It came from the deep

In her ongoing quest to disappear, Helen Ivory has

In her ongoing quest to disappear, Helen Ivory has cunningly concealed herself within a pack of red striped t-shirt wearing Chihuahuas - can you spot her?

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